Mizuho mayhem

These are a little hard to see, but the Web site TripleWitchingFriday has photos it claims show the melee that ensued on the floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange as news of the Mizuho trading scandal broke a few weeks ago. The current estimate for settling the trading error is estimated at $335 million.

The site claims they’re authentic, taken with a cell phone camera by a foreign exchange arbitrage trader on the floor that day. Still, the last image of the guy holding the woman over his head, presumably to toss her across the room, looks a little Photoshopped.

The trading error occurred after a Mizuho trader apparently offered 610,000 shares of a company called J-Com at ¥1 each, instead of the intended one share at ¥610,000. Oops.